(m,k)-firm constraints have been used to schedule tasks in soft/firm real-time systems under overloaded conditions. In general, they are provided by application designers to guara...
Multimedia applications today constitute a significant fraction of the workload running on portable devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and MP3 players. However, the processors i...
Activity recognition based on data from mobile wearable devices is becoming an important application area for machine learning. We propose a novel approach based on a combination ...
The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
This paper advocates a strict compositional and hybrid approach for obtaining key (performance) metrics of embedded At its core the developed methodology abstracts system componen...